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With Covid-19 compounding the health threat of wildfire smoke, this year’s fires are putting an unprecedented strain on communities.

From Vox

This could release compounds that might move through the air — right to someone’s nose.

A leucine-rich diet may increase your risk of obesity or type 2 diabetes, in theory because the compound sends your body a “time to grow!”

At Towson University in Maryland, chemist Shannon Stitzel is tracing cocoa to its roots using organic compounds, which are mostly produced by the cocoa plant itself.

Local media reports that Beijing initiated the idea of universal testing, rather than Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, have compounded those concerns.

From Fortune

He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.

Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages.

They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.

The Holy City, specifically the al-Aqsa compound, has been the flashpoint for the latest round of conflict.

Now the lead breacher explained how he cut through the steel doors bin Laden used to seal himself into the compound at night.

He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.

They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.

Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.

The body of a young woman was found in the compound outside my bungalow, done to death in precisely the same way.

The compound was washed on the fifth of May, and a grain of gold weighing one and one-half reals was obtained.

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On this page you'll find 154 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to compound, such as: admixture, aggregate, alloy, amalgam, amalgamation, and blend.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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